Special Issue

“Gridable and Sustainable Transportation Technologies: New Trends in Grid Connection Issues for Different Scales of Transportation Solutions”

Special Issue Guest Editors:

• Lead Guest Editor: 
  • Prof. Ozan Erdinç, Yildiz Technical University, Faculty of Electrical and Electronics, Department of Electrical Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Consulting Guest Editor:
  • Prof. Joao P. S. Catalao, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Porto (FEUP), Porto, Portugal
• Guest Editors (in Alphabetical Order): 
  • Prof. Akın Taşcıkaraoğlu, Mugla Sitki Kocman University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Mugla, Turkey
  • Prof. İbrahim Şengör, İzmir Katip Çelebi University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, İzmir, Turkey
  • Prof. Miadreza Shafie-Khah, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Vaasa, Vaasa, Finland
  • Prof. Nikolaos Paterakis, Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  • Prof. Tarek Alskaif, Information Technology Group (INF), Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Wageningen, The Netherlands

The transportation sector is responsible for more than one third of the global fossil fuel utilization and accordingly plays a vital role in greenhouse gas emissions. Regarding the recent increase in the awareness for a cleaner and sustainable supply of energy for this sector, the electrification of transportation has become a topic of wide interest both for the academy and the industry especially in the last two decades. Even though this electrification process may hinder vital drawbacks from the environmental point-of-view, the acceptance of these gridable and sustainable transportation system in the power system may pose different challenges especially with the possible growing number of such applications. Therefore, different scales of such transportation solutions should also be well-studied from power system perspective and this special issue awaits papers in this manner to propose different concepts in this manner.

Topics include the following:

• Energy quality improvement oriented solutions for the effective grid integration of new generation transportation systems
• Energy management systems for structures including gridable and sustainable transportation systems
• Forecasting methods for effective prediction of gridable transportation loads for operational and planning oriented studies regarding power systems
• Grid connection of maritime systems via smart port design
• Grid connection of new generation railway systems
• Grid connection of different levels of road transportation solutions from micromobility to heavy duty applications
• Novel power electronics based solutions to enhance effective grid connection of sustainable transportation systems

etc.

The special issue also welcomes high-quality research and review papers on these and related topics.

All papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process and automated plagiarism checks. Papers must be formatted according to the specifications and limits of the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. This (non-paid) open access journal is indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded (SCI-E).

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: June 15, 2021

Rejection/Revision notification to authors:  September 1, 2021

Revision submissions due: October 1, 2021

Acceptance notification to authors: November 1, 2021

Publication of accepted papers: This SI will be published in 2021.

Special Issue

"New Trends in the Deep Learning-based Solutions for Biomedical Applications"

Special Issue Guest Editors:

1. Lead guest editor: Prof. Dr. Kemal Polat, Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bolu, Turkey.
2. Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 9107 - 116 Street, Edmonton, T6G 2V4, Alberta, Canada
3. Guest Editor: Dr. Şaban Öztürk, Amasya University, Amasya, Turkey.
4. Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque, University of Fortaleza, Graduate Program in Applied (PPGIA); Laboratory of Bioinformatics (LABIO), Fortaleza - CE, Brazil

The development of technology and the contribution of technological solutions to almost every aspect of human life ensure an increase in societies' living standards and expectations. While the developments in the field of industry increase the societies' consumption quality, the life expectancy of the societies also increases. For this reason, it did not take long for high technology, such as artificial intelligence, to enter the medical field. Today, many institutions in the field of health actively benefit from the possibilities of artificial intelligence. Deep learning is the most striking version of artificial intelligence today. This artificial intelligence architecture, which is actively used in the literature for the solution of almost all problems, is very effective in the medical field. This special issue awaits papers that include deep learning-based solutions to problems in the medical domain.

Topics include the following:

• Deep learning for medical image classification
• Deep learning for medical image segmentation
• Deep learning for medical image analysis
• Deep learning for cell tracking
• Deep learning for medical signal processing
• Deep learning for medical image or signal pre-processing
• Deep learning for medical data retrieval
• Big medical data

etc.

The special issue also welcomes high-quality survey and tutorial papers on these and related topics.

All papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process and automated plagiarism checks. Papers must be formatted according to the specifications and limits of the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The journal is Science Citation Index - Expanded (SCI-E) and (non-paid) open access.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: April 15, 2021

Rejection/Revision notification to authors:  May 15, 2021

Revision submissions due: June 15, 2021

Acceptance notification to authors: July 15, 2021

Publication of accepted papers: This SI will be published in 2021.

Call for Contributions to a Special Issue of Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences

Advances on Blockchains and Applications

Guest Editors

• Alptekin Küpçü, Koç University, Turkey
• Anwitaman Datta, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Payman Mohassel, Facebook, USA

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences calls for papers on the Special Issue on Advances on Blockchains and Applications.

Topics include the following:
- Blockchain data analytics
- Blockchain simulators
- Blockchain systems
- Cryptographic protocols for blockchains
- Distributed consensus for blockchains
- Lightweight blockchain designs for Internet of Things or Edge/Fog Computing
- Privacy on blockchains
- Scalability of permissioned or permissionless blockchain systems
- Smart contracts and cryptocurrencies
- Secure blockchain designs
- Security for blockchain applications

The special issue also welcomes high-quality survey and tutorial papers on these and related topics.

All papers will go through a rigorous peer-review process and automated plagiarism checks. Papers must be formatted according to the specifications and limits of the Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. The journal is Science Citation Index - Expanded (SCI-E) and (non-paid) open access.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 31 March 2021
Rejection/Revision notification to authors: 31 May 2021
Revision submissions due: 30 June 2021
Acceptance notification to authors: 31 July 2021
Publication of accepted papers: September 2021